yes and no.
I myself have never gotten past the fact that Romeo and Juliette are supposed to be the embodiment of true love or something, when in fact they were a couple of teenagers who declared themselves madly in love approximately 18 minutes after meeting, then got married the next day, and the next time they saw each other, killed themselves over each other. That says "emotionally disturbed" to me much more than it says "timeless love."
But that's just one play. I think Hamlet is genuinely good. And some of his other tragedies--eg Macbeth, King Lear, etc.
But my main point is that those represent just one category of his writing. A lot of it (eg Taming of the Shrew, Comedy of Errors, Love's Labours Lost, etc) are basically written to be bawdy slaptick.
And then there are the war ones, like the Richards, and Henry IV (is that the right henry?), and Julius Ceasar. Those are basically action pictures.
Except in many of the action and comedy plays, our William did take the time to actually develop a character or two.
I get "about 11,200" for apache and "about 7,440" for IIS on Google. Apparently all those hax0rs have been working too hard. Google will tell me how to ownz servers thousands of times over.
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures,
shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly
describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
That's the 4th amendment. Not that it hasn't been gutted to some extent (take, for instance, Carnivore), but it's still there and basically supported by the laws.
Hence unless I'm told otherwise, I'll assume that the secret service first aquired a search warrant and spelled out approximately what they were looking for (records of credit card transactions or whatever) before taking all this guys stuff.
The fact that they haven't changed him yet is not necessarily surprising. It's important to charge a person with the right charges, and as many as he or she is believed guilty of. If they don't get the charges right, then they might miss the conviction, and double jeapordy laws (based on "nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb" from the 5th amendment).
And come to think of it, amendment 6 says "In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right... to be
informed of the nature and cause of the accusation..."
i.e. they have to charge him before they can try him, but not necessarily before they aprehend him (or search his house).
yeah, ctrl-alt-del shuts down my linux box (safely) as a user. and it did it out of the box (that is, out of the distro install...)
But then again, I know how to change that. Or at least, It's in/etc/something and I've seen it before, so I could find it again.
And why wouldn't I want that to work? ctrl-alt-del doesn't exactly work remotely, and my computer is sitting to the left of my keyboard, and to the right is the outlet it's plugged into. If someone (say, a computer non-savvy roomate who wants to use my computer as his hotmail terminal) wants to shut down my computer, he is going to be able to. Why not provide him a way to do so without making me have to fsch?
You've got a point, but I think that breaking the encryption is a much better solution for us. If you reverse engineer the player, that's cool, you can play your files, but only until the Robber Barons Association sues the hell out of you for making the player. Of course, the same is true of a decryptor, but with 2 major differences:
1) you only need to sic a decryptor on a file once to turn it into mp3 or whatever other useful format you want, so you're not dependent upon the constant availability of your (illegal) player.
2) The song is actually in a useful (ie interchangeable) format. You can put it on your portable mp3 player, or burn it to CD, or whatever other means you want to allow you to listen, at your convenience, to the music that you've payed for.
The way I see it, as long as the song is in an SDMI format, they control it. They control what you can play it on, they can concievably track it, and they can make it expire (who was it talking recently about how corporations are trying to eliminate buying in favor of rental? I wouldn't be at all surprised if the labels decided to make you renew your music liscense every so often, with no option to buy outright.)
While I'm sure the US military reserves the right to reinstate the dither in times of war, it means that the bulk of the time we now have ultra cheap, worldwide navigation.
The funny thing about that is, the dither was a peace-time-only hobble. The stated purpose of the scrambling was to prevent other countries from targeting their missiles really well by it, but during the Gulf War, when there were actually other countries tossing missiles at our stuff, the military turned the dither off.
completely ridiculous idea, completely ridiculous implementation. glad to see it go.
it's usually a pretty good sign that someone is saying something stupid. In this case, it's basically someone with an AOL account who is capitalizing on the confusing things that happen to mass and energy at relativistic speeds to convince some people that he's invented an antigravity ship.
As many others have noted already, his assumptions about photons are a bit off (ie they don't have rest mass, but they do have four-momentum, which is what you really need to talk about anyway at that speed).
Also, the "superluminal" bit goes on the assumption that since his ship is "anti-gravity" it's "massless" and therefore can go as fast as it darn well pleases. This is false in enough ways that I'm sure you can all come up with your own.
Lastly, my impression of the overall idea is to use light energy to counteract gravity. Which is kind of like using rocket fuel to do the same, except it's much more efficient and we're no where near to possessing the technology to accomplish it.
Anyway, that's my 100,000DM (in less than 20 minutes, even!) have a nice day
I don't actually know how much they cost, and I think it's more than $200, but the Rega's are good. ie when I read my dad's Audiophile magazine (see above post about golden-eared rich people who swear by vinyl), they say that the Rega turntables are amazingly good for the price (and I think maybe they just can't handle that there's a turntable almost as good as theirs for 1/50th the price).
And I wouldn't listen to the people who are urging you to get a Technics 1200 and warning you against belt drive. It might suck when a belt breaks, but there are no high-end direct drive turntables, because direct drive is noisy. And the 1200 is a great table, if you're a DJ, but otherwise it's just a pretty good table, and probably has a heavier arm than you want (the heavier the arm, the quicker your records die).
I was reading the Netscape docs the other day to figure out how to get rid of unwanted profiles and there was a definition of profiles, which says the same stuff as the other two responses, about how it allows multi-user etc... the thing is, those docs said that the Unix versions of Netscape do not contain the profile feature, and if you want to make a different user profile, you should create a new user account. That seems like the logical way to do it, since the profile is basically a replacement for the multi-user concept that is fundamentally built in to Unix and completely absent (well, sometimes superficially present) from Windows and Mac.
So I would think this would not be a feature Mozilla would want to include in their Linux version, because apparently it is introducing bugs, and it's redundant with (and worse than) the normal Linux multi-user system.
Of course, it's possible that they are just including it because it doesn't fit their development model right now to be doing different things for different OSes. I noticed a post above complaining about the continued inclusion of email and editor features. Perhaps once this thing is done, someone will take the time (maybe not too tough, and maybe already the plan) to go through the code and chop out all the extra stuff like mail and composer and profiles and make a nice sleek browser. I'm afraid my hacking skills are not adequate, but the person who did such a thing would certainly earn my admiration.
I'm assuming you're using "best hacks" the way Cnet did, but I'm going to just say "cracks" to keep myself sane. In that case, I think it would be a cool idea to have the Slashdot community vote on the best cracks. What would be extra spiffy, though, is if one of our faithful slashdotters then proceeded to crack Cnet's servers and replace their list with ours. There must be someone out there who could figure it out...
On a different note, "best hacks" to me has to do with creative and powerful solutions to computing problems, and it would be pretty cool to see a slashdot-compiled list of the very best of those, too.
hmm... reading slashdot comments is a lot more fun than doing physics problem sets... Klaas
I meant that Microsoft was a counter-example. Doesn't really make sense the other way, now does it?
"these kids these days! they hit enter before they even know what the heck they just typed! and then they wonder why the world's going to heck in a handbiscuit.
ok, the gameboy focused on gameplay and useability and all that, but mightn't it also have had something to do with the fact that it was the Nintendo product, and Nintendo was the game system at that time, and thus had both the name recognition and the ability to market the heck out of it? Maybe that's just my cynical assumption that the biggest corporation always makes the winning product, and only sometimes the better one.
heh, I guess a notable example of that would be Microsoft. They were tiny compared to IBM. It's probably some combination of big assets, little scruples, and foresight (though you can add some more assets and kill the remaining scruples to substitute for this).
Just when you think you're just paranoid, all that stuff comes true. A terabyte of usenet? How much space do they have devoted to my email? Maybe the people who say privacy is dead are right. Seems like no matter how many battles we win, there's still something that we don't know about, so the only protection is to be inconspicuous.
um, for the benefit of the bot searching this... I love America! I'm glad all those brave NSA spooks are watching my every move, because what if I were a criminal? Thank you, mr. NSA, I feel so safe.
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yes and no.
I myself have never gotten past the fact that Romeo and Juliette are supposed to be the embodiment of true love or something, when in fact they were a couple of teenagers who declared themselves madly in love approximately 18 minutes after meeting, then got married the next day, and the next time they saw each other, killed themselves over each other. That says "emotionally disturbed" to me much more than it says "timeless love."
But that's just one play. I think Hamlet is genuinely good. And some of his other tragedies--eg Macbeth, King Lear, etc.
But my main point is that those represent just one category of his writing. A lot of it (eg Taming of the Shrew, Comedy of Errors, Love's Labours Lost, etc) are basically written to be bawdy slaptick.
And then there are the war ones, like the Richards, and Henry IV (is that the right henry?), and Julius Ceasar. Those are basically action pictures.
Except in many of the action and comedy plays, our William did take the time to actually develop a character or two.
I get "about 11,200" for apache and "about 7,440" for IIS on Google. Apparently all those hax0rs have been working too hard. Google will tell me how to ownz servers thousands of times over.
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
... to be
informed of the nature and cause of the accusation..."
That's the 4th amendment. Not that it hasn't been gutted to some extent (take, for instance, Carnivore), but it's still there and basically supported by the laws.
Hence unless I'm told otherwise, I'll assume that the secret service first aquired a search warrant and spelled out approximately what they were looking for (records of credit card transactions or whatever) before taking all this guys stuff.
The fact that they haven't changed him yet is not necessarily surprising. It's important to charge a person with the right charges, and as many as he or she is believed guilty of. If they don't get the charges right, then they might miss the conviction, and double jeapordy laws (based on "nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb" from the 5th amendment).
And come to think of it, amendment 6 says "In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right
i.e. they have to charge him before they can try him, but not necessarily before they aprehend him (or search his house).
yeah, ctrl-alt-del shuts down my linux box (safely) as a user. and it did it out of the box (that is, out of the distro install...) /etc/something and I've seen it before, so I could find it again.
But then again, I know how to change that. Or at least, It's in
And why wouldn't I want that to work? ctrl-alt-del doesn't exactly work remotely, and my computer is sitting to the left of my keyboard, and to the right is the outlet it's plugged into. If someone (say, a computer non-savvy roomate who wants to use my computer as his hotmail terminal) wants to shut down my computer, he is going to be able to. Why not provide him a way to do so without making me have to fsch?
That's my new rallying cry. I've never much liked that state anyway, and now it's making all of us have to sit around worrying until all hours...
You've got a point, but I think that breaking the encryption is a much better solution for us. If you reverse engineer the player, that's cool, you can play your files, but only until the Robber Barons Association sues the hell out of you for making the player. Of course, the same is true of a decryptor, but with 2 major differences:
1) you only need to sic a decryptor on a file once to turn it into mp3 or whatever other useful format you want, so you're not dependent upon the constant availability of your (illegal) player.
2) The song is actually in a useful (ie interchangeable) format. You can put it on your portable mp3 player, or burn it to CD, or whatever other means you want to allow you to listen, at your convenience, to the music that you've payed for.
The way I see it, as long as the song is in an SDMI format, they control it. They control what you can play it on, they can concievably track it, and they can make it expire (who was it talking recently about how corporations are trying to eliminate buying in favor of rental? I wouldn't be at all surprised if the labels decided to make you renew your music liscense every so often, with no option to buy outright.)
While I'm sure the US military reserves the right to reinstate the dither in times of war, it means that the bulk of the time we now have ultra cheap, worldwide navigation.
The funny thing about that is, the dither was a peace-time-only hobble.
The stated purpose of the scrambling was to prevent other countries from targeting their missiles really well by it, but during the Gulf War, when there were actually other countries tossing missiles at our stuff, the military turned the dither off.
completely ridiculous idea, completely ridiculous implementation. glad to see it go.
it's usually a pretty good sign that someone is saying something stupid.
In this case, it's basically someone with an AOL account who is capitalizing on the confusing things that happen to mass and energy at relativistic speeds to convince some people that he's invented an antigravity ship.
As many others have noted already, his assumptions about photons are a bit off (ie they don't have rest mass, but they do have four-momentum, which is what you really need to talk about anyway at that speed).
Also, the "superluminal" bit goes on the assumption that since his ship is "anti-gravity" it's "massless" and therefore can go as fast as it darn well pleases. This is false in enough ways that I'm sure you can all come up with your own.
Lastly, my impression of the overall idea is to use light energy to counteract gravity. Which is kind of like using rocket fuel to do the same, except it's much more efficient and we're no where near to possessing the technology to accomplish it.
Anyway, that's my 100,000DM (in less than 20 minutes, even!)
have a nice day
I don't actually know how much they cost, and I think it's more than $200, but the Rega's are good. ie when I read my dad's Audiophile magazine (see above post about golden-eared rich people who swear by vinyl), they say that the Rega turntables are amazingly good for the price (and I think maybe they just can't handle that there's a turntable almost as good as theirs for 1/50th the price).
And I wouldn't listen to the people who are urging you to get a Technics 1200 and warning you against belt drive. It might suck when a belt breaks, but there are no high-end direct drive turntables, because direct drive is noisy. And the 1200 is a great table, if you're a DJ, but otherwise it's just a pretty good table, and probably has a heavier arm than you want (the heavier the arm, the quicker your records die).
I was reading the Netscape docs the other day to figure out how to get rid of unwanted profiles and there was a definition of profiles, which says the same stuff as the other two responses, about how it allows multi-user etc...
the thing is, those docs said that the Unix versions of Netscape do not contain the profile feature, and if you want to make a different user profile, you should create a new user account. That seems like the logical way to do it, since the profile is basically a replacement for the multi-user concept that is fundamentally built in to Unix and completely absent (well, sometimes superficially present) from Windows and Mac.
So I would think this would not be a feature Mozilla would want to include in their Linux version, because apparently it is introducing bugs, and it's redundant with (and worse than) the normal Linux multi-user system.
Of course, it's possible that they are just including it because it doesn't fit their development model right now to be doing different things for different OSes.
I noticed a post above complaining about the continued inclusion of email and editor features. Perhaps once this thing is done, someone will take the time (maybe not too tough, and maybe already the plan) to go through the code and chop out all the extra stuff like mail and composer and profiles and make a nice sleek browser. I'm afraid my hacking skills are not adequate, but the person who did such a thing would certainly earn my admiration.
heh. this is fun. 20th for me too, but I'll be in Peru, and I don't think I'll have internet access. shoot.
I'm assuming you're using "best hacks" the way Cnet did, but I'm going to just say "cracks" to keep myself sane. In that case, I think it would be a cool idea to have the Slashdot community vote on the best cracks. What would be extra spiffy, though, is if one of our faithful slashdotters then proceeded to crack Cnet's servers and replace their list with ours. There must be someone out there who could figure it out...
On a different note, "best hacks" to me has to do with creative and powerful solutions to computing problems, and it would be pretty cool to see a slashdot-compiled list of the very best of those, too.
hmm... reading slashdot comments is a lot more fun than doing physics problem sets...
Klaas
I meant that Microsoft was a counter-example. Doesn't really make sense the other way, now does it?
"these kids these days! they hit enter before they even know what the heck they just typed! and then they wonder why the world's going to heck in a handbiscuit.
ok, the gameboy focused on gameplay and useability and all that, but mightn't it also have had something to do with the fact that it was the Nintendo product, and Nintendo was the game system at that time, and thus had both the name recognition and the ability to market the heck out of it? Maybe that's just my cynical assumption that the biggest corporation always makes the winning product, and only sometimes the better one.
heh, I guess a notable example of that would be Microsoft. They were tiny compared to IBM. It's probably some combination of big assets, little scruples, and foresight (though you can add some more assets and kill the remaining scruples to substitute for this).
Just when you think you're just paranoid, all that stuff comes true. A terabyte of usenet? How much space do they have devoted to my email? Maybe the people who say privacy is dead are right. Seems like no matter how many battles we win, there's still something that we don't know about, so the only protection is to be inconspicuous.
um, for the benefit of the bot searching this... I love America! I'm glad all those brave NSA spooks are watching my every move, because what if I were a criminal? Thank you, mr. NSA, I feel so safe.
Klaas